Marking-ticket.



M. A. MARSH & G. A. WALLIN.

MARKING TICKET.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 3, 1012.

1,054,927,- Patented Mar. 4. 1913.

2 To all whom it may concern:

. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

mELvrLLE A. .MLRSH, or NEW YORK, N. Yi, am) eus'rar A. wALLnw, or scorcn PLAINS, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOBS To A. KIMBALL COMPANY, or new Yonx,

N. Y., A. CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

Specification of Letters r m.

' Application filed September 8, 1912. Serial No. 718,206.

Be it known that we, MELVILLE A. MAnsH,

a citizen of the United States, and resident of New York, county of 'New York, State of New York, and GUSTAF A. WALLIN, a citizen of the United States, 'and' resident of Scotch Plains, Union county, New Jer-- sey, have invented an Improvement in Marking-Tickets, of which the following description, in connection with'the accom; panying characters on the drawing representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the production of a convenient and useful ticket for marking fabrics, garments and thelike I with the price, uality, or such other inforticket.

mation as may e desired, the ticket being S so constructed that when applied to the fabric to be marked it can be a ed thereto in such manner that it cannotbe removed without the practical destruction of the -The security or safety feature of the ticket is of value when it is used to mark a made up garment or other article which may be sent to the customer on approval, for if the article is thereafter returned and the ticket'is damaged or missin it is obvious that an attempt has been ma e, more or less successfully,'to remove the ticket and to use the article to which the ticket was attached.-

All 'business'houses refuse to credit returned articles if they show indications of use, but with the ordinary commercial marking ticket'it is usually not a diflicult matter to remove it from the article, use the latter with care and then re-attach the ticket, without detection.

Our present invention provides a'mark-.

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The novel features of our invention will be fully described in the subjoined specification and particularly pointed out in the following claim.

drawing, is a specification, like.

and unmistakably any at-' Figure 1 is a view in plan of a marking ticket, embodying our invention, the indicatmg 'or outer face of the ticket being shown; Fig. 2 is a view of the ticket apphed to the goods to be marked and locked permanently thereon, showing the back of the ticket; Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 3'3, Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is-a perspective vlewof the ticket partly folded and ready for application to the article-to be marked; Fig. 5 1s a similar view of the ticket without the record flap, partly folded and ready'for application to the article to be marked.

Referring to the drawing, the markin ticket, usually made" of cardboard, stifi paper, or other suitable flexible and readily foldable material, comprises two connected and like flaps 1, 2 foldable along the dotted easily through the slot 4:, the combined length of the flap17 and its tongue being nearly equal to the length of the flap 2. Said tongue has an aperture 10 adjacent its tip, so located that when the ticket is in use the apertures 10 and 6 will register with each other and with a similar aperture 11 in the flap 1.

By reference tothe drawing it will be seen that the length of the protecting or covering flap 7 is somewhat less. than the distanceof'the slot 4 from the free end of the flap 2, in order that the tongue can be passed readily through said slot, the apertures 5 being located between the slot and the fold line .We have herein shown the flap 1 as provided with a readily, detachable extension or record flap 12, Figs.- 1 to 4, a line of perforations 13 enabling the flap 12 to be easily and quickly detached and adjacent such line of separation the flap 1 is provided with a suit-able fastening device, preferably and ,as herein shown a staple 14, fixedly secured to the ,fiap and provided with pointed flexible't'erminals 15.

When the ticket is applied to. the fabric c to protect. the points 0 p the tongue 9 is p'assedthroughthe slot;4,-Z bringing the protecting. flap=7f-intbbpera= as to expose the alined apertures-6 and 11;

The fastening terminals 15, are pushed through the fabric and through the .apertures 5 and turned down upon the' -fla -2, as shown by dotted lines Fig. 2. I The fa ric 16 is now held securely between the fabricreceiving or embracing flaps 1 and 21nd tive'gosition, Figs. 2 and 3. Asshown in said gures the tongue extends betw*eenithe flaps 1 and 2 substantially totheir connected the apertures (Sand 11. A suitablelockifig device, preferably a tubular eyelet orriyet 17, is passed through the three alined aper tures and upset ,or headed, thereby lockingj permanently the tongue to and ,between the flaps l and 2.

remove the ticket from the goods W1 It will be apparent that-the only iwa 1 to? e out} ,fabrie'i andthe slotted fiapand tobe turned injury to the latter is to turn up"and with.- i downythereupony and a terminal coveringdraw the fastening terminals" 15'from the j flap 2 and then from the fabric, but this cannot be done until the protectiveorcow ering flap 7 is swung up and away from the flap 2. So long, however, as the tongue 9 is locked, as describedQthe protective flap cannot be swung up to expose the=.fastening-ter' minals. Hence, to remove theticket, it must be destroyed in whole or inpart, and,the resulting rupture or defacement of the ticket would at once indicate that it had jbeen tampered with and probably had been removed and replaced. Thus the locking of the protective flap 7 affords the dBSll9/d. safety or security against an unauthorized removal of the ticket and use of the article to which it is attached, and without in any way injuring the article or interfering with the ready application thereto of the ticket.

The record flap 12, which we prefer touse the fastening evicei,

tice have'displayed upon it. suitable data, suchas-the price, style, etc'., of the article, and the department o$-5the store in which it is located, corres ending to similar data on iihe-outer face 0 the flap 1, as indicated in j-V Q on a sale is made the record or conretaine as -a-record {of the transaction.

:Whe'n the record flap is used in connection with the ticket 1t lies-against the 'face of the article marked: until the latter is sold,

"and presents'no olgectionable feature.- ,.-nI-Iaving'ful1y A pin ticket comprising two connected g sfold'able flaps adapted to, receive between th'emj the fabrieto .be marked and to extend ,at yth'eir connected ends beyond the 1 fabric! edge ,gearried' byftheother flap and having termina'ls which are adapted to pass through the iflap onfthe'free end of said slotted flap, having an 'elongated'tongue apertured near its tip and which isadapted to ass through the slot and extend between t e'fabric-receivingflaps substantially to their connected lends, the latter two flaps having each an aperture to register with the aperture in the tongue, for the reception of a fastening device to connect permanently the fabricreceiving flaps and interposed tongue beyond the edge of the fabric to be marked. 'In testimony whereof, we have signed our names to this specification, in the presenceof two subscribing witnesses.

MELVILLE A. MARSH.

V GUSTAF A. WALLIN.

Witnesses: LOUIS K. HYDE,

CHARLES A. SwENsoN.

pan fla 12'is torn off by the salesman and ne- ,flapilihavi-ng attransverse 1 slot 111931- 4153*:186 .end,: a fastening device in connection with the ticket, will in pracescribedaour invention,

what we claim as new toy-Letters Patent is: Z ends, and the aperture 10 will-register with and desire to secure 

